Shadowing Practice: Everything Vanessa Hudgens Does in a Day | Vanity Fair - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey, I'm Vanessa Hudgens, and this is Everything I Do in a Day.
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I wake up whenever I wake up.
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I set my alarm for the time that I should wake up at minus five minutes, which varies between 7 a .m.
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to 10 a .m., and then I set a new alarm for five minutes later, and then I get up, but the five minutes are delicious.
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I do check my phone when I wake up.
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I do, I wanna say that I don't, but I do.
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It's like, who texted me overnight?
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What emails have I received overnight?
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And what's happening on Instagram?
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And sometimes I check the news, so I feel better about myself when I check the news.
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But then I feel worse afterwards, so it's a lose -lose.
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Shower, wash the face in the shower, and then brush my teeth.
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I definitely have time allotted for my makeup applying.
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I am in a bathrobe, a cozy bathrobe, which I do not wanna get out of,
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but then kinda just throw on the nearest things that I have to the bed.
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And it's been really rainy in good old sunny Los Angeles, so it's a lot of pajamas.
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For breakfast, I mix it up every now and then, but I always go to the exact same spot and rotate between a breakfast burrito,
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This like fried rice that has vegetables and eggs on it
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or this thing that's like bread but it's made with seeds
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and there's almond butter and jelly on top of it and then always an almond milk latte.
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As soon as I get my breakfast then I am off to the fox lot.
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I use Waze because I'll get you there as fast as possible even if it means driving through someone's front yard.
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That's what it feels like though, not really, but like, it does feel like that.
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I drive my Audi A7 and usually play music on my way to work, and the music is extremely varied.
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Depends on the mood, sometimes it's like Artie Shaw, and then sometimes it's Radiohead.
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It's always changing.
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Soon as I get to the lot, I pull in, say hi to the security guy, Sean, and then pull into my parking spot,
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grab all my stuff, because I normally bring a lot of things to work.
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Haul over to my trailer where I set everything down, turn the TV on, turn the heaters on, because it's freezing, and then leave my trailer,
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go into the soundstage, and put the mic pack on.
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And then I work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work.
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Sing, sing, sing, dance, dance, dance, work, work, work.
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Lunch is kind of like a combination of lunch and dinner.
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We have catering, which is lovely, but I kind of eat the same thing every day.
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Whatever vegetables there are, whatever fish there is, and whatever pasta there is.
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And then I go back to work.
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I definitely check my phone at work.
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I gotta stay connected to the world somehow.
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Look at a lot of home stuff.
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There's a website called Woven Abode, which is rugs that I am on a lot, just scrolling through rugs.
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It's really exciting.
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It is about 10 p .m take off my mic, go back to my trailer, grab all my stuff, get in the car, put in Waze.
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I've been listening to this podcast called The Savage Love Cast.
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It's very entertaining and a great way for me to decompress by listening to other people's problems.
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And then I arrive at home.
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Maybe I'll have a glass of wine, but my lunch dinner I have at work.
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Wine and Seinfeld, I just started watching it.
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I'm obsessed.
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That's all I want to do.
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There's a lot of great shows though.
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I've been mixing it up.
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Bedtime routine.
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I don't really have a routine.
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I mean, I'm very religious about my skincare.
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Do the wash, do the toner, do the serum, do the moisturizer, shower.
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Shower before all that, brush my teeth, get in bed.
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Then I put on more Seinfeld or whatever I'm into.
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And I normally fall asleep because I cannot stay awake and watch something in bed.
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It's impossible.
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I get anywhere from six to eight hours.
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I dream.
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Big.
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I dream and I do remember my dreams.
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I feel like I remember a lot of my dreams, but you don't really know, do you?
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Beautiful, head cut.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 65 sentences and 744 words to shadow. The speech runs for 4:34. The speaker talks at a natural 163 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| trailer noun | /ˈtɹeɪlɚ/ | Someone who or something that trails (follows behind); something that is trailing. |
| routine noun | /ɹuˈtin/ | A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure. |
| alarm noun | /əˈlɑɹm/ | A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. |
| vary verb | /ˈvɛəɹi/ | To change with time or a similar parameter. |
| brush noun | /bɹʌʃ/ | An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle, used for any of various purposes including… |
| overnight adverb | /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/ | During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| rug noun | /ˈɹʌɡ/ | A partial covering for a floor. |
| almond noun | /ˈɑ(l).mənd/ | The seed within the drupe of a small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, considered a culinary nut. |
| egg noun | /ɛɡ/ | An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell… |
| mood noun | /muːd/ | A mental or emotional state, composure. |
| afterwards adverb | /ˈæf.tɚ.wɚdz/ | At a later or succeeding time; after that; |
| butter noun | /ˈbʌtɚ/ | A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk). |
| arrive verb | /əˈɹaɪv/ | To reach; to get to a certain place. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| go back to verb | To stem from; to originate in. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| get up verb | To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | |
| take off verb | To remove. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 15 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, I'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: brush /bɹʌʃ/, delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like trailer, routine, alarm.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been listening · I've been mixing |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | catering, which is · Abode, which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.